Monday, March 6, 2017

Spring 2017

I have neglected my blog. I have been tatting. I have not been photographing or documenting my tatting. shame on me. I do so enjoy reading the blogs of other tatters, and admiring all the pretties on Facebook. I have not finished the previous Renulek doilies, and I tried to talk myself out of making the Spring 2017 doily that was started a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I gave in. I got out several balls of DMC size 30 cordonet in ecru and loaded shuttles.

I had to refresh my memory on how to do onion rings. I practiced, and silly me, tried to do the outer ring as a chain. Needless to say, that did not work well. I then looked up the technique at the On Line Tatting Class and finally to you tube. Thanks Tamie for clearly showing how to do the onion rings as rings.

I am so confused by this. The instructions say to RW and work as a chain, does it not? I just cut my first round and started over as I just could not get it to look right this way. I've looked at any number of blogs and no one seems to have an issue with it so maybe I'm making it more complicated than it is! :/

About Me

After 41 years in Nursing, I retired in 2015 . I miss some of the great nurses I have worked with over the years. I do not miss the 12 hour shifts or fighting with the computers. I have done some form of needlework since learning to crochet at age 7. I learned to tat in the year 2000 and this has become my number one thread craft. Tatting is basically tying knots in thread, which lead to the title of my blog.